For most numbering purposes, you may find that an ordered list perfectly meets your needs. However, for certain documentation, you need something a bit more complex that allows you more control over indents and the actual method of numbering.
MadCap Flare offers the ability to define your own numbering schemes and to lay them out exactly as you want. This post discusses the …

In MadCap Flare, publishing builds is a relatively simple process - your content is added and formatted in the project, the target is developed, and you’re ready to build and publish the final output. But say you’re creating an HTML5-based output that you have to build every day at a certain time. Or you’re a part of a team that uses agile development and requires …

In my previous post, I mentioned that when I started at CM Labs, I recognized that we needed to switch from Oxygen XML Editor with Doxygen generation to MadCap Flare for our online help outputs. In that blog post, I outlined the steps we'd taken to update the documentation process, both in the tools we use and in the review process. This post will explain some of the reasons …

In our latest post of our MadCap Scholar Program Series, we’re excited to share our interview with Chris Ninkovich of British Columbia Institute of Technology. As an instructor of a course that focuses on designing and writing online Help, he enhanced his curriculum through partnership with the MadCap Scholar Program. We share his tips on how to design quality online …

You inherited a MadCap Flare project that looks like a complete mess. Someone imported a Word document into Flare ages ago, fixed some stuff here and there to make the output decent enough, and then left the company. The project faded into oblivion. Now, the time has come to bring it back to life and publish new deliverables.
This article doesn’t aim to be an exhaustive …

An employee handbook is essential to convey expectations to employees; however, not every organization has the time and resources to write the document from scratch. That’s why we created the pre-written employee handbook manual, available to all licensed MadCap Doc-To-Help 5 users. This new project provides the information needed to quickly create and publish a …

Do you find yourself in the situation where you keep re-adding chunks of text, tables, images, and videos in your projects? Tired of writing the same steps over and over again?
Snippets are a great way to reuse content throughout your documentation. Instead of typing the same information where you want to use it, you simply need to create content once and insert them in the …